Garment.



J. B. MOORE.

GARMENT.

APPLICATION FILED AUG. 1 1. 1915.

1,161,717. Patnted'Nov. 23, 1915.

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JAMES B. IVI-OORE, OF BAYSIDE, YORK.-

GARMENT.

Application filed August 11, 1915.

Toall whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JAMns B. Moonn, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Bayside, in the county of Queens and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Garments, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to underwear, particularly to what are known as union suits, and the main object thereof is to provide in a suit of this type means automatically effective for the concealment and protection of the organ of urination though permitt ng ready access thereto, thereby dispensing with buttons or other fasteners at this point of the garment.

My invention is fully described in the following specification, of which the accompanying drawings form a part, in which like characters refer to like parts in each of the views, and in which Figure 1 is a front view of a union sult provided with my invention; Fig. 2 is a fragmentary View thereof, opened to show the construction; and Fig. 3 is an enlarged section taken on the line 33 of Fig. 1. In the drawings forming a part of this application I have shown a union suit comprising the body portion 4 provided with sleeves 5 and leg portions 6 and open from the neck 7 to a point 8 slightly above the crotch 9, said opening being held closed by means of buttons 10 from the neck to a point approximately on the waist line of the garment. As is usual with garments of this type an insert 11 is provided at the crotch to insure fullness thereat, and it is between the lowermost button on the waist line and the upper edge of the insert 11 that my invention is arranged.

One front edge of the garment overlies the other front edge in the usual construction and buttons are provided all the way to the crotch, but in garments made according to my invention I widen this overlap very materially and stitch the two edges 12 and 13 to the upper edge of the. insert 11, the edge of the flap 12 being inclined on the line of strain from the point ll of the junction of said flap with the insert 11 to the left shoulder 15, as shown in Fig. 1, and the edge of the inner flap 13 being reversely inclined from the point 16 of its junction with the insert 11 along the line of strain to the right shoulder 17 Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 23,1915.

Serial No; 44,897;

When the body of the wearer is erect, the line of strain from the shoulder 15 to the point 14 insures that the flap 12 will lie flat, and the line of strain from the shoulder 17 to the point 16 will compel the flap 13 to lie flat, thus forming a positive double cover over the organ thereunder requiring no buttons or other fasteners. This overlapping of the flaps 12 and 13 does not prevent the insertion of the fingers of the wearer nor the outward passage of the organ as the fabric of which the garment is composed at this point is usually elastic but, should the fabric be inelastic, a slight forward stoop of the body of the wearer will relieve the strain from the said flaps to the respective shoulders and thus allow of such organ removal, this stoop being usual with men preparatory to urination while standing.

It will thus be seen that the concealment of the organ is positivewhile the wearer of the garment is in erect position and, even though he stoops, the overlap of the flaps 12 and 13 is sufficient to still conceal the organ, the horizontal line of stitching at the junction of the flaps with the insert and the width of the lower ends of the flaps being sufiiciently great to insure this permanent overlap except when manual force is applied to overcome the same.

My invention is very simple, highly efiicient, considerably more comfortable than garments made in the conventional manner, and adds nothing to the cost of the garment, the flaps being held in overlying positions merely by the weight of the garment from its points of suspension at the shoulders of the wearer.

Having fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. A garment of the class described, open at its front, fasteners for holding said front closed from the neck to the waist line, and downwardly broadened, overlying, flaps at the lower end of the opening secured at their bottoms on a horizontal line between two materially separated points, whereby the lines of strain from said points to the respective shoulders will cross approximately on the waist line of said garment and thus maintain said flaps in overlying posii wearer maintaining said flaps in overlying 10 positions irrespective of said fasteners.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of v two subscribing witnesses.

JAMES B. MOORE. Witnesses:

J. C. LARsEN, PHILIP D. RoLLHAUs.

portions and open along its front, an insert at the crotch of said garment terminating said front opening, and downwardly broadened similar overlying flaps extended from the waist line of the garment to said insert and secured thereto, and fasteners for closing said front opening from the neck to the waist line only of said garment above said flaps; the strain from the shoulders of a Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents Washington. D. G. 

